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Thom Yorke 3D print by Tiago Serra: a 3D model/print created from the CC licensed original point cloud data of Radioheads’s “House of Cards” videoclip. Audiência Zero (altLab, LCD and xDA’s mothership) recently held a 3D Printing Workshop led by Zach Hoeken from MakerBot Industries. Sérgio Ferreira wrote such a nice post about it that I [...]

On December 12 and 13 Audiência Zero (AZ) will hold the first big meeting of its 3 labs: LCD, altLab, and xDA. We’ll all get together in Porto, at AZ’s headquarters, for 2 days of creative and fun hacking. The main goals for this hackmeet are to share knowledge, explore synergies, collaborate, research, and… (of [...]

Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops in which a community explores creative reuse through the recycling of used clothing. The website has ideas for clothes swapping, fashion parades and DIY workshops, along with suggestions for rebranding your creations with ‘100% Recycled’ or ‘Modified by Me’ labels. The event was started in [...]

SMART TEXTILES SALON September 25, 2009, Ghent, Belgium The programme is organised together with 80th Anniversary of the Department of Textiles at Ghent University and 6th International Conference on Textile and Polymer Biotechnology. The exhibition introduces the latest demonstrator and prototype developments in the field of smart textiles and intelligent wearable systems. The displayed items will [...]

A first hackteria workshop has been going on last week at NK, Berlin. First of all, it was great fun and we could get the project a big step further. go to the hackteria webpage for a detailed description. and see our pictures on flickr the topic of the workshop was to build your own little microscope using [...]

h a c k t e r i a & l a b h a c k i n g with Marc R. Dusseiller & Kaspar Koenig Saturday 30 May - Wednesday 3 June 2009, 12.00-18.00 daily Location: eNKa / ElsenStr. 52 (2.Hof) Berlin, Germany Telephone: +49 (0)176 20626386 Course Participation fee: 100 euros Registration is required for this workshop and [...]